Regional mapping of ICT specialization and adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in Greece

Dimitrios Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas, Evangelos Siokas and Aggelos Tsakanikas

Telecommunications Policy, 2025, vol. 49, issue 2

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to provide a mapping of business ICT specialization and adoption of novel digital production technologies across Greek regions. In addition, it aims to preliminarily investigate whether these aspects are associated with regional economic performance. We develop specialization indicators of each region's ICT activities and economic performance using NUTS3 level data and combine them with regional firm-level data regarding the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies from a large-scale field survey of 1014 industrial firms. Our findings add a novel geographical scope to the ongoing discussion regarding the digital transformation of the Greek economy, highlighting the ICT specialization asymmetries and different digital technology adoption rates between a cluster of highly specialized and connected metropolitan regions and the rest of the mostly rural regions. The results provide preliminary input regarding the importance of region-level characteristics, which are remarkably absent and must be considered in the ongoing national ICT policy discussion.

Keywords: ICTs; Regional specialization; Digitalization; Industry 4.0; Greece (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O33 R11 R15 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102903

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